Brown School RWoW Poster Template for your Fabulous Project


by Jenine K. Harris, PhD


Introduction

Welcome to posterdown ! This is my attempt to provide a semi-smooth workflow for those who wish to take their R Markdown skills to the conference world. Most features from R Markdown are available in this package such as Markdown section notation, figure captioning, and even citations like this one (Allaire et al. 2022). The rest of this example poster will show how you can insert typical conference poster features into your own document.

Objectives

  1. Easy to use reproducible poster design.
  2. Integration with R Markdown.
  3. Easy transition from posterdown to pagedown report or manuscript documents (Xie et al. 2022).

Methods

This package uses the same workflow approach as the R Markdown you know and love. Basically it goes from RMarkdown > Knitr > Markdown > Pandoc > HTML/CSS > PDF. You can even use the bibliography the same way (Thorne 2019).

Results

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To center a table1 table you need the center html tags below and after the code chunk.

Table 1. This is the table it took me forever to make the text big enough for a poster.
Overall
(N=150)
Sepal.Length
Mean (SD) 5.84 (0.828)
Median [Min, Max] 5.80 [4.30, 7.90]
Species
setosa 50 (33.3%)
versicolor 50 (33.3%)
virginica 50 (33.3%)

That’s a nice table!

Maybe you are plotting something

You might want to show some figures, like these:

Great figure!

Figure 1: Great figure! 

data <- iris

plot(x = data$Sepal.Length, 
     y = data$Sepal.Width, 
     col = data$Species,
     pch = 19, 
     xlab = "Sepal Length (cm)",
     ylab = "Sepal Width (cm)")
Amazing, right?!

Figure 2: Amazing, right?!

Next Steps

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Conclusion

Try posterdown out! Hopefully you like it!

References

Allaire, JJ, Yihui Xie, Jonathan McPherson, Javier Luraschi, Kevin Ushey, Aron Atkins, Hadley Wickham, Joe Cheng, Winston Chang, and Richard Iannone. 2022. Rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for r. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmarkdown.
Thorne, Brent. 2019. Posterdown: Generate PDF Conference Posters Using r Markdown. https://github.com/brentthorne/posterdown.
Xie, Yihui, Romain Lesur, Brent Thorne, and Xianying Tan. 2022. Pagedown: Paginate the HTML Output of r Markdown with CSS for Print. https://github.com/rstudio/pagedown.